MySQL Product Manager

Are you passionate about delighting customers in the open-source database space? Does the opportunity to impact how Percona products look long-term excite you?

The Product Manager for MySQL is responsible for the inbound and outbound product management efforts. Working closely with engineering teams, the goal is to further MySQL adoption as well as Percona’s continued commercial success as a leader in the MySQL space.

You will collaborate with customers, partners, other product managers and tech leads at Percona, translating the product vision into a compelling strategy and roadmap that engineering can feasibly implement. You will balance time and scope to ensure that we are delivering value to Percona’s customers and community.

What You Will Do

• Establish the MySQL product strategy so that it complements the overall corporate and product vision.
• Translate this strategy into easy-to-consume roadmaps to bring a product to life.
• Identify product and market opportunities through customer, community, and stakeholder interactions, e.g., conducting surveys or contacting existing customers directly to understand exactly what they are looking for.
• Collaborate with other Product Managers to ensure alignment of our tactical plans with the strategic vision, providing complementary product support in a timely manner.
• Build and own the relationships with Services, Community, and Engineering.
• Explore new ways of improving our existing services and products.

What You Have Done

• Developed a strong understanding of MySQL or other open-source databases and an eagerness to bring that experience to improving Percona’s OSS and commercial offerings.
• Product management with enterprise IT software, including experience shipping products.
• Demonstrated a strong understanding of customers’ business challenges and needs and how those translate to products that delight the customer.
• Proven technical background in software development or operations.
• Experience in working with inter-departmental stakeholders to successfully develop and deliver software products and solutions.
• Ability to lead without requiring authority to be given first, breaking down barriers and driving improvement across functions.
• Excellent work ethic, self-motivated and self-managed, strong organizational skills & ability to meet deadlines.
• Language skills: English fluently, additional languages appreciated.
• Exceptional communication skills, including verbal, written, and presentation skills, including public speaking skills.
• Willing to travel occasionally on business (as travel conditions permit).
• Depending on your home time zone, willingness to adjust your working schedule on occasion to accommodate video calls with customers in different countries.

What Will Make You Stand Out

• Overall experience with open-source technologies, databases and/or monitoring and observability.
• Experience working with Open Source Communities as an active member who is involved with various open-source projects.
• Excellent stakeholder management, both internally and externally.

Why Percona?

At Percona, we believe an open world is a better world. Our mission is to enable everyone to innovate freely, by providing the best open source database software, support, and services. We make databases and applications run better through a unique combination of expertise and open source software built with the community for you. Our technical teams are experts in MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and MariaDB.

Percona is proud to be a remote-only and globally dispersed workforce – we have colleagues in more than 50 countries! We offer a collaborative, highly-engaged culture where your ideas are welcome and your voice is heard.

Our staff receives generous benefits including flexible work hours and various paid time off programs, all your equipment for your remote office, funds for career development (external training, certifications, conferences), ongoing connectivity allowances, and the opportunity to participate in our equity incentive plan. We also have benefits that support a healthy work/life balance such as The Percona Adventure Team, Work-from-Anywhere, FlowDays, FryDays, and overall flexibility. We also support being socially responsible through our PAVE volunteering program and Women Transforming Technology.

If you love the idea of working with a high-growth tech company that is one of the best in the business and known globally as a leader in the open-source database space, let’s talk!

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